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The Afternoon Show: Billy Connolly talks about his art exhibition Born on a Rainy Day and Karine Polwart performs music.

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Billy Connolly talks about his art exhibition Born on a Rainy Day and Karine Polwart performs music.

BBC Radio Scotland - The Afternoon Show, Billy Connolly talks about his art exhibition Born on a Rainy Day and Karine Polwart performs music.

Karine Polwart talks to Janice and performs songs from her new album Laws of Motion.

Sir Billy Connolly tells Janice Forysth about his foray into art and his latest collection of artwork Born on a Rainy Day on location at Castle Fine Art gallery in Glasgow.

Janice will be chatting to Billy Connolly about his foray into art and his latest collection of artwork Born on a Rainy Day which is being exhibited in Glasgow this month.

We’ll have a live music session from Karine Polwart with songs from her new album Laws of Motion, and we’ll hear her talk about the book she’s written A Wee Bird Was Watching with illustrator Kate Leiper.

We’ll celebrate the ‘Rebels’ theme of Book Week Scotland with our own ‘Rebel Book Group’ members - writer and broadcaster Hannah McGill, writer, publisher and activist Kevin Williamson, and poet and creative director Hannah Lavery – who will share their favourite rebel read, and Kevin will talk about the Rebel Inc film being released on Friday the 23rd of November as part of Book Week Scotland – about the iconic Scots counter-culture publishing company and literary journal he founded which gave a platform to writers such as Irvine Welsh, Alan Warner, Laura Hird, before any of them had books in print. 

We’ll hear about Scotland’s only sci-fi magazine Shoreline Infinity from its editors Russell Jones and Noel Chidwick.

Our Single of the Week is Beds by OK Button.

We’ll hear about street art and live motion capture animations which are set to bring to life the story of Scotland’s oldest brewery ahead of the opening of a new Tennent’s Visitor Centre from Frank Calikes the Visualisation Manager at The School of Simulation and Visualisation (SimVis) at Glasgow School of Art, and graffiti artist Conzo Throbb.

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